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A Promised Land by Barack Obama
3.75
challenging emotional funny inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

 - Quite fascinating to read about what was going on behind the scenes of some of the biggest historical moments of my lifetime.
- Obama is very good at clearly explaining complex situations and the history and people at play (if maybe not as good at explaining them concisely).
- This book really shows you the sheer amount of information, events, and chaos a president deals with every day.
- I did find his constant push for bipartisanship and repeated discussion of friends across the aisle to be intensely frustrating to read at this particular moment in time, especially given that he knew